Health Recipes
Unlike the lemon juice you normally consume, Lemon + hot water + rock salt is a magical recipe with an array of health benefits.
Nutritional Value
- A glass of lemon juice contains less than 25 calories.
- Rich source of calcium, potassium, vitamin C and pectin fibre.
- It also has medicinal values and antibacterial properties.
- It also contains traces of iron and vitamin A.
Health Benefits:
- It's a good source of vitamin C.
- It improves your skin quality.
- Increases alkalinity of the body (required to be disease-free)
- It supports weight loss.
- It aids in digestion by enabling produce of bile juice.
- It freshens breath.
- It helps prevent kidney stones.
- Alleviates colon health.
- Eases bowel movement, hence a remedy for constipation.
- Rehydrates after diarrhoea, vomiting.
- Flushes Out Toxins
- Anti-addiction remedy, anti-cancerous, and anti-acidic.
- Strengthens immune system
- Protection against infections and flu.
- High potassium content works wonders in heart patients.
- Anti-inflammatory, reduces pain and inflammation in joints and knees as it dissolves uric acid
- Cure for common cold, cough, Fever, Stress and Vertigo too.
- The potassium content helps nourish brain and nerve cells
- It strengthens the liver (by providing energy to the liver enzymes when they are too dilute).
- Relieves heartburn (by balancing the calcium and oxygen levels in the liver).
- Anti-wrinkle, anti-acne and anti-ageing properties.
- Maintains eye health and helps fight against eye problems
- Helps to replenish body salts especially after a strenuous workout session
- Cleansing effect on organs.
Preparation:
- Boil water
- Squeeze lemon into cup of hot water
- Add ROCK salt/Himalayan Rock Salt (NOT iodized table salt) to taste
Side Effects of Lemon Water:
Lemon juice is potentially dangerous to be consumed WITHOUT Salt and Hot water. The possible threats could be,
- Increased acidity that erodes tooth enamel & causes tooth sensitivity.
- To limit the risk, drink lemon water through a straw, and rinse your mouth afterwards.
- The acidic citric acid may stimulate heartburn in some people, where Others may experience relief from heartburn since lemons become alkaline in the digestive tract.
- If lemons aggravate your heartburn, avoid drinking lemon water.
- Frequent urination in few cases. (to be compensated with higher water intake.
Features:
- Anti-inflammatory and anti-pyretic properties of ginger help fight against all inflammations and fever.
- The perfect stability of the acid-base combination optimizes the benefit of all the 3 ingredients - ginger, lemon & jaggerry/country sugar.
- Best remedy for common cold, flu, fever, indigestion and constipation.
- Improves gut health.
- Boosts immunity.
- Aids in fighting against flu causing viruses inclusing Covid 19.
- Eliminates toxins.
- Protects from / delays cell damage.
- Peel an inch of ginger.
- Crush it and add to one tumbler of water and allow it to boil for 2 minutes.
- Add jaggerry as required (usually 1 tbspoon) and boil for 30 seconds.
- Switch off the flame and squeeze lemon over the mixture (usually ? lemon per head).
- Filter and enjoy a hot, healthy, refreshing and curative drink everyday!
- You may preferably have this twice a day or thrice in case of need to ease any of the health issues mentioned in 'Benefits'.
Features:
- Expectorant property that helps thinning of flem and easy discharge through nose and sputum.
- Eases throat and chest congestion.
- Helps in decongestion of lungs, thus doesn't allow Phlegm to accumulate.
- Speedy recovery from flu, common-cold and cough.
- Prevents lung diseases that occur as a result of phlegm accumulation.
- Peel ? inch of ginger and crush.
- Crush 3-4 pepper corns.
- Add to one glass of thin milk and allow it to boil for 2 minutes.
- Put off the flame and add a spoon of jaggery.
- Enjoy the soothing and curative drink before bed-time as the last one to consume.
- Stop consumption once you feel better and out of your flu-symptoms.